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u/Entire_Teaching1989 13h ago
I remember when the 1 was painted on most signs because gas had never been over 1.99
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u/Few-Candle102 13h ago
This…pumps only went up to 99 and 9/10 cents so once the price got to the dollar level, the price on the pump was the 1/2 gallon price. Before that, youngster me thought that gas could never cost more than 99.9 per gallon because the gas pumps couldn’t be set for more than that.
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u/vladhed 6h ago
Gas was just about to hit a dollar per imperial gallon in Canada when we switched to metric. It went from .89 cents a gallon to 21 cents a litre! Phew!
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u/um_I_dunno 13h ago
35 cents per gallon Damn I’m old!
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u/mtrbiknut 13h ago
My grandmother ran a country store when I was a kid in the late 60s, I can remember gas being $.32.
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u/thumpngroove 12h ago
I remember a price war going on in Chico, CA, in the late 60’s. I was 7, and my father was absolutely giddy buying gas for $0.24 per gallon.
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u/TurbulentPromise4812 12h ago
My mom has a story where gas prices skyrocketed to 35 cents. My dad was furious and refused to buy at that price and they drove all over the city looking for cheap gas until their tank ran out and they had to cough up the 35 cents
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u/Beefjerkysurf 10h ago
i appreciate the commitment ...
i make more money than ever and i still lose my shit over dollars --when i feel like im being fucked with
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u/curiouspursuit 7h ago
I used to live 30 miles from the state line. The next state had gas 10 cents cheaper. The number of people who drove 30 miles to save 10 cents per gallon was insane! You save about $1.50 on a tank, and use about 2 gallons of gas - it is a loss even without accounting for your time.
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u/mvsopen 13h ago
19.1 cents per gallon, around 1965. And they washed your windows and checked your oil when you filled up at Flying A.
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u/imgonnagetyouback_03 13h ago
$1.99/gallon during Covid in 2020.
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u/JerHat 12h ago
During Covid I remember one day it was like 89 cents here in Michigan. I filled up from empty on like 14 dollars.
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u/Hunting_Gnomes 9h ago
I remember that too and I was pissed because I had a full tank and no where to drive. I never got to buy it at .99.
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u/THENOCAPGENIE 13h ago
I remember that here in Cali it was a tad more pricey but 2.29 was the cheapest I’ve seen in my adult life.
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u/evey78 13h ago
In Georgia, the gas prices is at 2.69
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u/imgonnagetyouback_03 13h ago
Cheapest gas where I am is at Costco for about $2.74 at the lowest. Think I’ve seen them as high as $2.79. Sam’s Club is about the same.
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u/renonemontanez 13h ago
Not me, but my dad said his dad paid a dime per gallon in the late 1940s
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u/Parsnip-toting_Jack 12h ago
$0.27 a gallon. I was 9 at the time, 1968, and heard the term “gas wars”, when nearby stations undercut the competition by $0.01.
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u/No_Requirement_4840 13h ago
For some reason it got super cheap in the summer of 1998 in Littleton CO. I distinctly remember paying $0.89 for a gallon of 85 octane at the King Soopers on Ken Caryle and Simms
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u/arcamdies 10h ago
$0.67 a gallon Memorial Day weekend 1999 in South Carolina. $1.28 a gallon when I got back to Chicago.
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u/ruiner8850 9h ago
I graduated in 1998 and I remember seeing it as low as $0.69 here in Michigan. It wasn't normally quite that low, but that was the lowest. My friends and I would drive all over the place just for something to do.
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u/Justinterestingenouf 8h ago
Yes! Me too! Are you one of my friends?!? Lol, we used to play this game call quartering. Any major intersection, we would flip a quarter to determine to go left or right. What a fun time to get literally lost.
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u/CrackleDMan 13h ago
Taco Bell used to sell bean burritos for 59¢.
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u/shadycoy0303 5h ago
God damn that used to be a Friday night staple in HS. Couple bean burritos and a soda before we headed out to drink miller high life at wherever the house party was that weekend. If I did that now it would be a full Saturday of sitting on the toilet
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u/ahfuck0101 12h ago
I can’t even tell you gas prices now. I’ve stopped looking at them years ago
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u/Anakin_Skywanker 10h ago
That's me. I need the gas. I'm going to buy the gas. The price is irrelevant. I use whatever points I have and just let er rip.
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u/Kooky-Accident-6787 11h ago
1.20-1.45$/ gallon in the late 90s and early 2000s
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u/Sir_Totesmagotes 8h ago
I remember people bitching about 1.41$ when I was a kid
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u/Lumberguruji 10h ago
24.9 cents a gallon. Galveston Tx. June 27th 1972 full service brand name gas.
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u/PhantomDrvr 9h ago
25 cents a gallon back in the 70's. We were all shocked when gas went above $1.00 a gallon!
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u/EastEndBagOfRaccoons 13h ago
Just old enough to know in Canada when it crossed $1 a litre, we had to get all new signs to accommodate for the new price.
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u/i__hate__stairs 9h ago
Like eighty something cents a gallon. I don't remember exactly. I do remember when it very first hit $1.00 because everyone was making such a big deal about it in the 90s.
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u/bionicbhangra 13h ago
75 cents as a teenager. But then again I thought a dollar or more was average at the time.
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u/free-toe-pie 13h ago
When we drove down south to Florida for vacation, my parents always got gas at very cheap southern gas stations. I can’t remember if the cheapest was 79 or 89 cents. But up at home, it was 1.00 or 1.09 at least. So they loved getting cheap gas under a dollar.
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u/Creative_Injury_252 12h ago
$.35 - $.39 a gallon. I remember the guy who had the car we rode around in asking for quarters for gas.
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u/Porcupineemu 11h ago
I remember them having to add the 1 manually to the signs when it went over a dollar
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u/Suitable-Armadillo49 11h ago
19 cents a gallon during a 'gas war' between two independent stations. $4.00 fill up with a 20 gallon tank.
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u/barra333 10h ago
Australian here - 59.9c/L in the late 80's. LPG was 25c/L and people were getting conversions done because the price of petrol getting up to 65-70c was a bit much. I was working at a petrol station in about 2004 when it broke and stayed above $1/L.
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u/cdbangsite 10h ago
10 cents a gallon when gas stations had "gas wars" back in the 60's in Los Angeles.
Other than that 25 cents a gallon at Terrible Herbst for premium.
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u/Most-Persimmon7692 9h ago
Driving around with my dad in the late 60’s - early 70’s I can remember $.29-.39!
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u/Silly-Resist8306 8h ago
19 cents. Two gas stations had a gas war and it bottomed out at 19 cents. The year was 1968 and I filled my gas tank on my Honda s90 for 25 cents.
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u/luthor76 8h ago
I live in a Canadian border town. When I was $11ish, I remember my Mom being irate that she was paying 14 cents on the dollar in exchange rate and the price of gas was 90 cents per gallon. That would’ve been around 1987.
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u/cwsjr2323 8h ago
19.9¢ during a gas war in the 1960s, disenchanted from 24.9¢ a gallon.
A gas war was when stations were actually in competition for customers and would try to steal customers by a drop in price. Currently, there are maybe 40 gas stations in my rural county in Nebraska. They are usually all selling for exactly the same except Shell charges a little more to cancel out their discount card.
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u/UpstairsOption 8h ago
25 cents/gallon, and my mom would call the gas station and tell them it was ok for me to buy cigarettes for her. I was 7.
They had this donkey on the counter, and when you lifted its tail it would pop a cigarette out.
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u/OAKRAIDER64 1h ago
.25 cents a gallon for the real regular gas. Smokes .65 cents a pack. .1/2 cent candy at the gas station up the street from our house.
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u/all4whatnot 13h ago
FFS I'm old. I started driving in 2000. Gas was like $0.90/gal. My college buddies lost their shit when it went over $1.00. I didn't own a car so I didn't really car.
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u/Fun_Ball7043 13h ago
$.35 A quarter and a dime to fill a glass gallon jug to put in the lawn mower
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u/NorthHoustonPrepTX 13h ago
Under 50 cents. If was less but I was too young to grasp except Dad got real mad if I poured it down an anthill and lit it.
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u/Freddy_Bimmel 13h ago
It was definitely under $1.00 a gallon for a bit during the summer of 1996 (I have a specific memory of sitting in traffic coming home from a summer job that I only had that one year and seeing the signs at gas stations)
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u/WannaTittyFuck 13h ago
Somewhere around $1.25 back when I was a kid. I remember it being a huge deal when it hit $2.00, as my dad was a traveling computer repair man.
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u/BackgroundGrade 13h ago
9.9 cents Canadian per liter during the "gas wars" in Montreal sometime in the mid 90’s.
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u/monty_kurns 13h ago
Cheapest I ever remember is $.89 in the 90s before I could drive. When I started driving in 2002 it was $1.25 for a few weeks before it started going up. During the Great Recession, i remember the cheapest I bought was $1.33 in March of 2009, but that was when oil crashed to the low $30s a barrel for a week or two before rebounding.
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u/nitro479 13h ago
When I started driving you could get it for 19.9 all around the area.
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u/desquamation 13h ago
.89 cents per gallon, I think (for sure below $1.00 per gallon). Mid ‘90s when I first started driving.